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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






2. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






3. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






4. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






5. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






6. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






7. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






8. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






9. A character struggles against some outside force.






10. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






11. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






12. The person who 'tells' the story.






13. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






14. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






15. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






16. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






17. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






18. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






19. A poem that tells a story.






20. The organizational form of a literary work.






21. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






22. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






23. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






24. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






25. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






26. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






27. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






28. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






29. The time and place of a story or play.






30. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






31. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






32. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






33. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






34. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






35. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






36. A four line stanza in a poem.






37. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






38. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






39. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






40. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






41. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






42. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






43. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






44. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






45. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






46. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






47. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






48. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






49. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






50. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.